Dr Emma Rehn

Project Highlights

Here are some highlights from past science communication projects, including work for Pint of Science Australia, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, the Astronomical Society of Australia, and GeoNadir.

A lineart illustration of a human skull and spinal column viewed from the right side, with red lines indicating the path of arteries of the head and neck
A cartoon illustration of a cuscus holding a branch and wearing a red hat in the style of Carmen Sandiego, on a background showing a globe and radiating lines. Text reads "Where in the world is Phalanger orientalis? To find out, listen to episode 7 of Supplementary Information"
A digital illustration showing three drones at different altitudes and the resulting changes in spatial coverage and resolution of a reef below. The drone on the left flies highest, showing a broader area of reef at low resolution. The central drone flies lower, covering a smaller area at slightly higher resolution. The drone on the right flies the lowest, showing the narrowest area of reef at much higher resolution. Text reads "Drones & Altitude"
A digital illustration of an orange octopus sorting laundry from baskets labelled "published literature" and "grey literature" into colour-coded shelves labelled "ExpAge", "CRN", "SahulSED", "SahulArch", and "FosSahul". Text above the illustration reads "OCTOPUS v.2 is a database of ages and rates associated with erosional landscapes, Quaternary depositional landforms, and archaeological records"
A digital logo showing a yellow map of Australia with pale leaves and flowers protruding around the edges. Across the map are red block letters that read "VEGEMAP"
A digital illustration of a sediment core (on the left) and two views of a wetland shown in cross-section (right, one above the other). The lower wetland is labelled PAST and shows higher water levels, clear water, aquatic plants, and abundant fish, with trees along the shore. The upper wetland is labelled PRESENT and shows lower water levels, cloudy water, low levels of fish and aquatic vegetation, and shrubby vegetation along the shore. The sediment core shows the lower levels corresponding to the wetland in the past, and the upper levels corresponding to the present, with the core taken from the present wetland sediment. The background is white
A digital illustration of a map of redshifted stars surrounded by tools including a ruler, compass, and magnifying glass, on a dark blue background. White text at the bottom of the image reads "Matthew Colless, ASA Ellery Lectureship 2024"
A digital logo made up of block letters containing illustrations in front of a starry Milky Way background. The letters spell "ASA2024" and contain a variety of astronomy-themed graphics including a radiotelescope, observatory, planets, and a galaxy
A digital graphic titled "Pint of Science Australia 10 years" showing animals and objects floating in space on a purple and blue background. In the centre, a whale swims out of a pint glass, with a koala and a frog in spacesuits on the left and right, respectively. Decorations include coral, stars, a book, planets, strands of DNA, and a radio telescope
Title reads: Did you know? Giraffes sleep around 4.5 hours a night. Four comic panels show a giraffe talking to a tired-looking meerkat. Giraffe: Are you okay? You look tired. Meerkat: Yeah, I only got 5 hours' sleep last night. Giraffe: Oh, and that's... bad?
A digital illustration showing a drone hovering in a blue sky over an ocean, with seagrass waving under the water and a dugong grazing on the seagrass. Text reads 'Seagrass & Drones'
An infographic showing part of a map of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea, and the continental shelf) and southeast Asia with text alongside it. Arrows show a northern route from Sunda through Sulawesi and New Guinea and a southern route through Timor-Leste. Text describes that 1300+ people would be required for the founding population, and that they had sophisticated open-ocean voyaging technologies over 50,000 years ago

Animations and Videos

Introducing OCTOPUS – animated video for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
About SahulArch, the collection of radiometric ages from archaeological sites in Sahul – animated video for the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
Welcome to the OCTOPUS web interface – video user guide for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
About SahulCHAR, the collection of sedimentary charcoal and black carbon records from Sahul and New Zealand – animated video for the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
About SahulTraits, the collection of ecological traits for vertebrates in Sahul over the last 200,000 years – animated video for the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage